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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1968
Page
2
Nelson B Cooper 75 of Yellow Springs WV dies Friday. Naomi Hottle Lewin 61 of Albin WV dies Friday. Walter A Buck Cain 69 of Winchester WV dies Friday. Services held at Hebron Lutheran Bethel Lutheran and Jones Funeral Home with burial at Hebron. Survivors listed include spouses children and grandchildren.
Notice lists Naomi Hottle Lewin of Bethel Lutheran Church with a Tuesday 2:00 PM time. Details indicate a church service or gathering at Bethel Lutheran Church.
Doctors report qualified improvement for both Blaiberg in Cape Town and Washkansky, with Blaiberg resting more and tests relaxed for sleep. Kasparek in California remains in critical condition but improving, while Louisville plans a transplant within a month and Beirut shows readiness for a donor heart transplant at the American University Hospital.
Walter J. Line age 72 of Wardensville West Virginia died Thursday at Veterans Hospital Martinsburg. Funeral at Warensville Methodist Church with Rev Charles Andrews officiating tomorrow at 2 30 p m burial in Wardensville Cemetery. He was a WWI veteran and retired farmer survived by wife Cable Jenkins Sine and 6 children, 15 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren. Burial arrangements at Loy Funeral Home Wardensville. Body to church one hour before service.
General Motors recalled 35 250 1968 Chevelle models for a possible brake defect not likely to cause major braking issues. About 250 cars with power brakes may have a missing lock-nut on the master push rod. 25 000 more Chevelles are recalled to check front brake line clearances in standard 307 or optional 327 V8 engines.
Carl Regret 36 on Chicago's top parking violator list paid 3430 in fines issued from 1966 1967 across 229 tickets mostly meter violations. Judge John J Kelly noted the overflow of unpaid tickets and the staggering total. In Copenhagen Arthur Koestler won the 1968 Sonning Prize worth 16666 dollars. In New York William S Paley elected president of MoMA. In Hollywood Maurice Jarre and Laura Devon revealed they wed secretly on December 30 with only the maid of honor present.
Walter Lee Richardson 40 of Stephens City was ordered held for the grand jury after a preliminary hearing in Frederick County Court. Charged with unauthorized use of a Rambler sedan on Dec 22, the vehicle of Boyd Shell, he was also found guilty of operating a motor vehicle with a revoked license. Sentence: 30 days in jail with 20 suspended.
Hazardous driving warnings issued in Lynchburg Roanoke and Bristol areas Chains and snow tires urged on I-85 south of Richmond and on U S 1 I 95 from Richmond to Frederickshurg No main roads blocked but western Virginia described as serious Warnings extend to Piedmont Northern Virginia Tidewater Eastern Shore with gale warnings in the Virginia Capes region.
A business man reports heavy smoke from a Ford Convertible at 2113 Regmill Rd Shawnee. Firefighters arrive in under ten minutes led by Ray Haines. A cigarette smoldering behind the ash tray is extinguished with two glasses of water offered by a resident.
Joseph A. Beirne president of the AFL-CIO Communications Workers foresees White House pressure as he prepares to demand substantial wage hikes for 400000 telephone workers. He notes restraint calls from the administration on wage and price rises this year and hints at a six per cent package of wage hikes and fringe benefits when contract talks open next month.
The United States orders Lt. Col. Henryk Pojmanski to leave Washington within a week after Poland expelled an American attache. The State Department cites diplomatic immunity violations tied to Lt. Col. Edward H. Metzger and Lt. Col. Kenneth J. Jefferson, who were accused of espionage and arrested in Bydgoszcz.
Heavy snow and hazardous driving conditions forecast in Virginia with up to 4 inches or more. Snow may mix with sleet and freezing rain later, temps in the 20s to low 30s. Sunday highs in the 20s. Saturday January 13 sunset 5 11 p m sunrise 7 32 a m moonset 7 05 a m.
Rainfall in the last 24 hours ended 8:30 am shows none. Five year totals from 1963 to 1967 range 26.85 to 36.48 inches. May to December monthly averages are listed, with annual Jan to Dec average of 36.50 inches over 55 years.
Thirty five to forty Clarke County farmers businessmen and agricultural workers will travel to Richmond next Wednesday to attend the Virginia Agricultural Materials Handling Exposition known as Electro-Ag 68 at the Richmond Arena. More than 40 manufacturers and distributors will display labor saving equipment and ideas. A bus trip is arranged by a local committee to allow more farmers to see the latest in farm mechanization.
Max Whitacre and Wayne Whitacre of Mt. Falls were found guilty only of assault and battery after being tried for assault robbery and attempted robbery in Frederick County Circuit Court. A 30 day jail term and $200 fine were imposed. The incident stemmed from a dispute with Dailey Orndorff near Stephenson on Sept. 8, during which spray blinded him and his checkbook and deposit book were stolen. Mrs. Wilda Whitacre faced charges but was acquitted in a separate trial on Jan. 2.
The Justice Department defends Hershey's plan to speed induction of draft violators and seeks dismissal of the NSA suit on jurisdictional grounds. The department reports a 77 percent rise in draft violation convictions for 1967 and says prosecutions totaled 1,648 with 952 dodging convictions.
The text notes the earth is nearly round with equatorial and polar diameters about 7,926.56 and 7,889.74 miles, a 27 mile difference. It also mentions the house where Confederate general Stonewall Jackson died being enshrined in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
A compact item lists ten responses: point of chin, Irish Dunlop, false, logrolling, 180, caustic, Thailand, minuend, Taft Hartley Act, and fielder with catcher's or first baseman's mitts.
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